4 Maccabees 6:16-18

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¹⁶ But Elea′zar, as though more bitterly tormented by this counsel, cried out: ¹⁷ “May we, the children of Abraham,^[a] never think so basely that out of cowardice we feign a role unbecoming to us! ¹⁸ For it would be irrational if we, who have lived in accordance with truth to old age and have maintained in accordance with law the reputation of such a life, should now change our course